This paper reports an in-depth and longitudinal case study on the new public management (NPM) reforms introduced in Portuguese public hospitals throughout the 2000s. The objectives of the investigation were twofold: firstly, it sought to analyse the role of accounting technologies and market-based mechanisms in the NPM reforms introduced in the sector when compared with other cases of NPM imple...

The objective of this article is to improve the most widely used indicator quality in public investment management (the PIMI). methodology was use an alternative algorithm build a new version PIMI and calculate it for sixteen Latin American countries. result New that appears better than original one, as has positive correlation with efficiency investment, which not achieved by PIMI. We recommen...